Study Guide chapter 21 section 4

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The Taj Mahal
  • The Mugal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
  • The white marble building with its onion-shaped domes and thin towers is one of the finest examples of Islamic archietecture in the world.

India and the Arts
  • Mahabbarat is an epic poem, which means that it tells a lenghty story, in a grand style, of one more heroes another famous epic poem is Ramayana.
  • They tell about the growth of Hinduism.

Music and Film
    • Music is played and sung in concert, at parties or in religious settings.
    • India makes more films every year than any other country including the U.S

The Languages of India
  • The constituion India now reconizes is official languages
  • Indians speak 100s of languages and diealet
  • A dialect is a regional variety of a language.

The Indo-Aryan Language Family
  • Indo - Aryan languages are related to the Indo-European language family
  • Today about three-fourths